{"id":23048,"date":"2021-05-20T17:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T21:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/?p=23048"},"modified":"2023-01-16T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:14:38","slug":"la-societe-immobiliere-du-canada-doit-se-rendre-a-levidence-il-faut-integrer-une-aire-de-baignade-dans-le-vieux-port-de-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/la-societe-immobiliere-du-canada-doit-se-rendre-a-levidence-il-faut-integrer-une-aire-de-baignade-dans-le-vieux-port-de-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canada Lands Company must face the facts: a swimming area must be included in the Old Port of Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRESS RELEASE
\n<\/strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n

Montreal, May 20, 2021<\/strong> \u2013 The Fondation Rivi\u00e8res is delighted that the City of Montreal has retained the project of an accessible harbor bath in downtown Montreal in its Nature and Sport Plan. And the best place to set it up is in the Jacques-Cartier basin in the Old Port of Montreal: the water there is almost always clean and access is safe.<\/p>\n

However, the Real Estate Company of\u00a0Canada<\/span>, manager of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du Vieux-Port de Montr\u00e9al, does not intend to integrate swimming areas. We therefore requested a meeting with the minister\u00a0Anita Anand<\/span>, Minister of Public Services and Procurement and\u00a0Mark Miller<\/span>, Member of Parliament for Ville-Marie-Le Sud-Ouest-\u00cele-des-Soeurs, in order to demonstrate to them the importance of opening such access to citizens in the Old Port.<\/p>\n

This is the place where the traditional takes place Grand Splash<\/a> annual organized by citizens for 16 years. The Fondation Rivi\u00e8res will once again organize a Grand Splash event at the beginning of July in the Jacques-Cartier basin, in order to claim the right of citizens to public access to water, all the more important since this place is located near the most popular neighborhoods. more populous, and would constitute a major asset to the tourist development of Montreal.<\/p>\n

Downtown Montreal will never be the same again. It must change and provide a quality living environment for residents. A city center full of offices is over. We are talking about economic recovery in Montreal, what could be simpler than creating a swimming area accessible to everyone and especially to its residents. While in Montreal, we only have the Beach of\u00a0Verdun<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Toronto<\/span> has no less than ten which are accessible a few minutes from the city center.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, we applaud the City's decision to develop a riverside recreational and tourism park in\u00a0China<\/span>, to which a swimming area should be added, especially since the water quality is generally excellent. We also note that the vocation of the sites\u00a0East Beach<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Promenade Bellerive<\/i>\u00a0are not retained for access to water. We encourage the City of Montreal to continue evaluating the swimming potential in these locations, the only ones located in the East of Montreal.<\/p>\n

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\"\"For informations : <\/strong><\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 B\u00e9langer
\n<\/strong>General Manager
\n514 295-1194<\/p>\n

Nature and sports plan: https:\/\/portail-m4s.s3.montreal.ca\/pdf\/plan_nature_et_sports_0.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo credit: Carl Campbell\/Unsplash<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Press release - Fondation Rivi\u00e8res is delighted that the City of Montreal has chosen the project of an accessible harbour bath in downtown Montreal in its Plan Nature et Sport. And the best place to set it up is in the Jacques-Cartier Basin in Montreal's Old Port: the water is virtually always clean and access is safe.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,32,37,40,53,70,78,79,81,83],"class_list":["post-23048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communiques","tag-baignade","tag-contamination","tag-deversements","tag-eaux-usees","tag-gouvernance","tag-montreal","tag-politique-nationale-de-leau","tag-pollution","tag-privatisation","tag-qualite-de-leau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondationrivieres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}